Knowing Lisbeth as I do, this is my fifth book experience with her, I know she sat in that courtroom in brooding silence and offered no defense. She beat the shit out of that low life, steaming pile of excrement. Our uber hip, ominously dangerous heroine, Miss Lisbeth Salander, is in Flodberga prison for two months because, in the course of saving an autistic child from his abuser, she got… too aggressive. There are just times when the laws of the land get things wrong. The Girl in the Spider's Web is sold to 47 publishers and more than 6 Million copies have been sold worldwide. Stieg Larsson's three Millennium novels have sold more than 82 Million copies to date, by 52 publishers worldwide. The Girl in the Spider's Web was published – in Aug– simultaneously by 26 publishers (in 24 languages) worldwide, ten years after the Swedish publication of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. In the summer of 2013, Lagercrantz was asked by Moggliden (the Larsson Estate) and Norstedts to write the fourth, free-standing sequel to Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. To date, the book has been published in over 30 languages around the world and been sold in millions of copies. The biography was nominated for the prestigious August Prize in 2012, as well as shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. In 2011 his best-selling sports biography I am Zlatan Ibrahimović was published, one of the most successful books in Sweden in modern times. He has been interested not only in what it takes to stand out from the crowd, but also in the resistance that such creativity inevitably faces. In David Lagercrantz' writing you can often see a pattern: major talents who refuse to follow convention. His breakthrough as a novelist was Fall of Man in Wilmslow, a fictionalised novel about the British mathematician Alan Turing. In 2000 his biography on the inventor Håkan Lans, A Swedish Genious, was published. His first book was published in 1997, a biography of the Swedish adventurer and mountaineer Göran Kropp. David Lagercrantz, born in 1962, is a journalist and author, living in Stockholm.
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